Sunday, May 19, 2019

Which Reminds Me

Yes, now that I am aware of the existence of Helen Whiton Calkins, and that she was quite the feminist philosopher in her own time, although she died in 1930, leaving behind four books that she wrote and also some papers, with which I am not very familiar, even so, it does not logically follow that I, who also happen to bear the surname of Calkins, would necessarily coincide with her on all points of philosophy and career and lifestyle. I bear the surname of Calkins in my own way, hopefully uncluttered by these unreasonable expectations of the resurgent appearance of a clone of Helen. There is no clone of Helen here. You are mistaken. You are in error. You are unreasonable. You are flawed.